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Iman

Iman (born July 25, 1955, Mogadishu, Somalia), aged 71, is a Somali model and actress. Iman's honours include OkayAfrica 100 Women and Great Immigrants Award.

Iman’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Iman’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Iman in the U.S.?

#1798

US rank in 2025

~6,609

Americans share it since 1972

1996

its peak year

US records hold Iman from 1972 onward, though not for 1955 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1996 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

Iman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Iman apart

The Great Immigrants Award came in 2006, when Iman was 51.

Iman was taught at University of Nairobi.

Iman was married David Bowie and Spencer Haywood and raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Mogadishu, Muslims from New York (state) and Somali actresses.

Tom McCamus shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
University of Nairobi
Awards
Great Immigrants Award (2006) and OkayAfrica 100 Women (2017)
Citizenship
United States and Somalia
Languages
French, Italian and English
Wikipedia editions
55

What the chart says

Iman, according to the stars

Core essence

Iman is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Iman is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Iman cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Iman needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Iman wants to be loved

Iman wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Iman gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Iman creates

How Iman makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Iman creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Iman is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Iman is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Iman fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Iman's birth date. Working below.

Where Iman sits

Six lines

Iman’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Iman

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Iman

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Iman

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Iman

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Iman

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Iman

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Iman

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mogadishu on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Mogadishu that night

Computed for 2.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cebalrai stood nearest the zenith over Mogadishu at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Ophiuchus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Rigil Kentaurus in Centaurus, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

Mogadishu sits at 2.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon, 41% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Mogadishu, Somalia
Lives in
Manhattan

Wikidata records Manhattan as Iman's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Iman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Iman's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No Earth planets

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Iman's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 25, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Iman was born on July 25, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Iman's birth date, July 25, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Iman’s chart

Iman’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 2.2° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 4.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Leo · 1°39′☉1°Moon in Libra · 16°56′☽16°Mercury in Cancer · 19°08′☿19°Venus in Cancer · 21°16′♀21°Mars in Leo · 8°57′♂8°Jupiter in Leo · 8°54′♃8°Saturn in Scorpio · 14°32′♄14°Uranus in Cancer · 28°13′♅28°Neptune in Libra · 25°33′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 25°39′♇25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Iman’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb

    Iman’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.5° orb

    Iman’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn3.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.3° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.5° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.4° to 7.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.9° to 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

Iman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 2°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 15°14′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 9°20′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 17°24′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.7°

Iman’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Iman’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, Jupiter, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Iman’s family here

2 relatives of Iman also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

Born the same day as Iman

Tom McCamus was born on July 25, 1955 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 83 catalog stars stood above Mogadishu, at 2.0°N that night, with Cebalrai nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?

Iman’s cards

Computed from July 25, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Iman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q256531 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Iman at Wikipedia, destinationiman.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Iman.

Quick answers about Iman’s chart

How old is Iman?
Iman is 71 years old, born July 25, 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
What zodiac sign is Iman?
Iman is a Leo: born July 25, 1955, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Iman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 25, 1955 birth.
How tall is Iman?
Iman is 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Iman's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Iman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Iman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Iman's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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